PROJECT POWER: Last News

Netflix is in the business of spending lots of money on big projects with massive talent associated with them to entice you to pay its ever-rising monthly subscription fee. And then, once they get you, the service will release data that shows that all of these expenses are well worth it, even if the data is impossible to corroborate and sounds a bit suspect.

Dominique Fishback first read the script for Project Power, Netflix’s latest high-concept, high-octane action blockbuster, she knew the film could give her a “Man on Fire moment.” She’s referring to Dakota Fanning’s breakout role in the 2004 thriller, playing the young girl who Denzel Washington’s lead character will stop at nothing to protect, the emotional catalyst for the story who humanises the tough guy. It’s a pretty common action movie trope but, as Fishback, 29, points out, it’s one that’s rarely embodied by a black actress.

In “Project Power,” a new supercharged, high-concept Netflix film and oblique run at the superhero genre; 1) disposable black and brown people in New Orleans are used as guinea pigs for a new experimental street drug that gives users unpredictable and fleeting superpowers for five minutes; 2) a sympathetic cop uses those same narcotics to “level the playing field” in a city riddled with crime and corrupt superiors who pass on amplified bad guys to secretive feds or men in black without accountability; 3) a white teacher tries to humiliate a black student who also moonlights as a teenaged street dealer by night; 4 Marvin Gaye songs play on the soundtrack to indicate the everyday struggle is real for BIPOC.

The directors of the upcoming Netflix drama, Project Power starring Jamie Foxx and Joseph Gordon-Levitt spoke about the film during an interview with Entertainment Weekly. The Netflix film is helmed by Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost.

If there was a pill that gave you a superpower for five minutes, would you take it? That’s the basic premise behind the upcoming film “Project Power,” and I think most people would undoubtedly say, “Yes!” READ MORE: Jamie Foxx “Officially Got The Real Ball Rolling” On His Long-Awaited Mike Tyson Biopic But as seen in the new trailer for “Project Power,” answering yes to that question comes with some potentially deadly consequences.